Yeah, another way of thinking about this is that if instead of investing in the US market you had instead invested in a bunch of Euros stuffed under your mattress, even this "investment" would be up 11%.
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- Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:55 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Trump making America great
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1680
Re: Trump making America great
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:49 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Trump making America great
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1680
Re: Trump making America great
The DOW isn't a very good indicator of the U.S. economy. You're just cherry-picking the index that makes you look the best. The S&P 500 is a much better indicator. That said, the S&P 500 is still up a lot in terms of USD. But as Slick mentioned, the value of the USD is down. This isn't some ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:57 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: This Bannon fella is a genius
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5188
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:47 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Moral Consistency
- Replies: 10
- Views: 751
Re: Moral Consistency
Sadly, I have to agree. But at least he had the temerity to apologize to his accuser for his past behavior and she accepted it. Another recent one has shocked me as well. Say it ain't so Sulu. :( http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/entertainment/george-takei-sexual-misconduct-allegation/index.html I hadn...
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:31 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Embracing the ridiculous...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 618
Re: Embracing the ridiculous...
You can have whatever opinion on pronouns, but one thing Peterson is guilty of is perpetuating the false narrative that you can be arrested for using the wrong pronoun.Nightshade wrote:Better make sure or else you'll be arrested in Canada!
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:27 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Slight of hand....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 420
Re: Slight of hand....
He's actually a sleight of hand. A slight of hand would be someone with small han... oh wait, I see what you did there.
- Sat Oct 14, 2017 4:17 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: another Muslim attack on the US thwarted
- Replies: 4
- Views: 561
Re: another Muslim attack on the US thwarted
Isn't this part supposed to say "no wait..."?callmeslick wrote:only one word in the title is incorrect, can you guess?
- Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:40 am
- Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
- Topic: Introducing 'Silent Fury', a D3 mod project
- Replies: 31
- Views: 27497
Re: Introducing 'Silent Fury', a D3 mod project
Does the *.exe mean no linux support?
- Sat Sep 09, 2017 8:39 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: You potheads are destroying the environment...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1488
Re: You potheads are destroying the environment...
You don't have to find them all. You just have to have enough enforcement so that the price of obtaining blackmarket goods is greater than the one of obtaining them legally.
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 7:15 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: I knew it. Sigma was a robot this whole time
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6819
Re: I knew it. Sigma was a robot this whole time
Suddenly a new contender has emerged.Nightshade wrote:Dude...you really should charge your phone.Isaac wrote:
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:03 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: "Google manifesto"
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6127
Re: "Google manifesto"
The traits that the original author identified as feminine are beneficial for being an engineer. However, they would have to be as beneficial as the traits that the author identified as masculine to expect a 50/50 split between engineers with "feminine" versus engineers with "masculin...
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 9:08 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Righteous Arrogance
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4820
Re: Righteous Arrogance
We have touched on the historicity of Jesus before: there is virtually universal acceptance among historians that Jesus was a real person who really lived. Who he really was is hotly debated, but the question of whether there really was a historical figure by the name of Jesus isn't really open for...
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 8:42 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: "Google manifesto"
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6127
Re: "Google manifesto"
My thoughts are that there was nothing "scientifically-backed" about the screed's claims in the least, and that was just one in a long line of examples of old-boys-club misogyny. It's the sort of bull★■◆● I'd expect from an MRA subreddit. A former Google employee wrote a fantastic rebutta...
- Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:06 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Image/Video Dump MEGATHREAD.
- Replies: 707
- Views: 742608
Re: Image Dump MEGATHREAD.
Wouldn't that cartoon have worked equally as well with the roles of Kim and Trump reversed?
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:19 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: a topic I mentioned the other day, fleshed out by the NYT
- Replies: 3
- Views: 562
Re: a topic I mentioned the other day, fleshed out by the NYT
As someone living abroad I am all too aware of this.
What would help make the dollar more valuable? The Federal Reserve raising interest rates?
What would help make the dollar more valuable? The Federal Reserve raising interest rates?
- Sat Jul 08, 2017 2:56 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: Descent 3 Linux Files
- Replies: 67
- Views: 49899
Re: Descent 3 Linux Files
My wild guess is that you are running 64-bit linux but are missing the 32-bit version of the mesa DRI library. On a debian-based distro, you would fix this by:
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
- Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:21 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: texting pic
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2516
Re: texting pic
If he has Signal or WhatsApp you can send it to him using that. As a bonus, you'll get end-to-end encryption.
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:53 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Muslim peace march in Germany...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 712
Re: Muslim peace march in Germany...
The protesters decided to stay home and later exaggerate their event numbers in order to show solidarity with Trump's policies and his claims about his inaugural attendance.
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:45 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Ferno can now be jailed...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 817
Re: Ferno can now be jailed...
What about the law makes using the wrong gender pronouns illegal? The argument as it is laid out so far seems to be 1) Jordan Peterson doesn't want to use some gender pronouns 2) Jordan Peterson is against the law 3) Therefore, the law makes not using some gender pronouns illegal Because I haven't r...
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 9:14 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Image/Video Dump MEGATHREAD.
- Replies: 707
- Views: 742608
Re: Worthless Image Dump MEGATHREAD.
The most disheartening part about being a Trump supporter is what it does to you.woodchip wrote:And yet he beat the worlds smartest woman. Doesn't say a lot about women.
- Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:49 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Image/Video Dump MEGATHREAD.
- Replies: 707
- Views: 742608
Re: Worthless Image Dump MEGATHREAD.
I don't like gender pronouns because, even if you're the old-fashioned type who thinks that you should be able to immediately identify someone's gender just by looking at them, there are still situations where you don't know someone's gender such as when talking about a single hypothetical person, a...
- Tue May 30, 2017 7:53 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Image/Video Dump MEGATHREAD.
- Replies: 707
- Views: 742608
Re: Worthless Image Dump MEGATHREAD.
Except when the killer bees come for you, they won't stop at just your wallet.
- Tue May 30, 2017 7:52 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Annnnd...it's Christians! (And right before Manchester too.)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1339
Re: Annnnd...it's Christians! (And right before Manchester too.)
When the killer bees come for you, I hope you aren't a honey bee.
- Tue May 30, 2017 7:52 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Killer bees attack mosque!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 276
Killer bees attack mosque!
One man hospitalized and more than 20 stung as swarm of up to 20,000 KILLER BEES attack people at Arizona mosque More than 20 people were stung and one hospitalized when a swarm of up to 20,000 killer bees invaded a Phoenix mosque Friday afternoon. The incident occurred at the Muslim Community Mosq...
- Tue May 30, 2017 7:51 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Escaping hatred...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 939
Re: Escaping hatred...
Thunderbunny, have you watched this documentary yet?
Do you think the West will wake up in time to stop the killer bee threat?
Do you think the West will wake up in time to stop the killer bee threat?
- Tue May 30, 2017 7:50 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Annnnd...it's honey bees!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 485
Annnnd...it's honey bees!
... no wait ... killer bees!
Map showing the spread of Africanized a.k.a. "killer" bees invading the United States from 1990 to 2003. Is there any hope for Western civilization?
Map showing the spread of Africanized a.k.a. "killer" bees invading the United States from 1990 to 2003. Is there any hope for Western civilization?
- Sat May 20, 2017 10:11 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Another Drug Thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 664
Re: Another Drug Thread
The war on drugs has been around long before Sessions, so don't lay it at his feet. And the war on drugs is much more than about marijuana. Try looking up how many people are dying from what drug: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates What is the saying tho...
- Tue May 16, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Vote rigging...the DNC way:
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1477
Re: Vote rigging...the DNC way:
I don't really have a problem with the concept of putting a finger on the scale. It does dull the responsiveness to popular will, but popular will can be really ★■◆●ing stupid at times. Popular will ultimately wins over time, but I think it should be slowed just enough to work out the stupid. How m...
- Tue May 16, 2017 9:33 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Vote rigging...the DNC way:
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1477
Re: Vote rigging...the DNC way:
you apparently never paid attention before this one. I'm trying to throw you a bone here, because you clearly have ZERO idea how this works. The Primaries are a PARTY FUNCTION, like the conventions which nominate themselves. They are NOT an open election, never have been. Trying to equate that to t...
- Tue May 16, 2017 12:19 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Vote rigging...the DNC way:
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1477
Re: Vote rigging...the DNC way:
Spidey, the Super Delegate thing was put in place to avoid dominance in low-turnout races by some zealot extremist. A more honest way of saying the same thing is that they were put into place so that party elites could put their fingers on the scale. When 98% of superdelegates polled all throw thei...
- Mon May 15, 2017 9:44 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Vote rigging...the DNC way:
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1477
Re: Vote rigging...the DNC way:
DNC primaries are designed to maximize the illusion of choice while minimizing its availability.
- Sun May 14, 2017 11:26 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The beginning of the End
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1990
Re: The beginning of the End
OK Jeff, tell me in this part of Krom's quote that I pasted that had any need to add his last sentence? I'm not surprised that you don't find a joke at your expense funny. As to his comment I pasted here other than this last election cycle , where was I commentating Hillary was a criminal Asking wh...
- Sun May 14, 2017 10:31 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The beginning of the End
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1990
Re: The beginning of the End
And it is too late to peel that "lock her up" bumper sticker off your rust bucket of a pickup truck and pretend it didn't happen. So know you are reduced to accusing me of a bumper sticker... No, he's not reduced to accusing you of that. That was just the only part of his post that you qu...
- Wed May 10, 2017 9:40 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Official release from White House over Comey firing.`
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1773
Re: Official release from White House over Comey firing.`
Can you cite this? I couldn't find anything trying to find it on Google.woodchip wrote:Funny how Hillary Clinton said she would fire Comey if she got elected.
- Tue May 09, 2017 5:09 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Who is more tolerant?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2798
Re: Who is more tolerant?
I guess there was Dennis Miller, but last I checked he's night manager at a Chili's? Does Larry the Cable Guy count as a comedian? I've read that a good joke should hit up, not down, i.e., attack people who are more powerful than you, not less. Contrary to there being some sort of insidious double s...
- Tue May 09, 2017 2:43 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Who is more tolerant?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2798
Re: Who is more tolerant?
Trump is a very easy target, and I do AGREE that you can't polish that turd...but Colbert and his ilk would attack any republican (or independent party or individual that opposes 'progressive' dogma) with equal zeal. Political ideology didn't stop comedians from ripping on Bill Clinton. The reason ...
- Sun May 07, 2017 5:06 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Sexism rules!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 646
Re: Sexism rules!
But, being of the female persuasion myself , even I hated Hillary's guts. It had nothing to do with her gender and everything to do with her sense of entitlement, disassociation and elitism. Why the Dems keep trotting her out in the press bewilders me. She lost, twice . She's poison to the party. S...
- Sun May 07, 2017 5:05 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Sexism rules!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 646
Re: Sexism rules!
If there were any misogyny in the last American presidential election- guess what? It was on the democrat side...because NO republican would have ever wanted to vote for a democrat anyway. You seem to think that if misogyny doesn't affect the result of an election then it doesn't exist. Of course t...
- Sun May 07, 2017 2:59 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Sexism rules!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 646
Re: Sexism rules!
It's impossible to calculate something like whether misogyny was responsible for Hillary Clinton's defeat, especially when not everyone even agrees on its definition, but there was enough of it on this board alone for it to be impossible for you to pretend like it didn't exist.
- Thu May 04, 2017 7:29 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Don't like just being a mediocre competitor?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2377
Re: Don't like just being a mediocre competitor?
For example, there's nothing stopping some man from dressing as a woman and sauntering into the woman's bathroom to get a peep show. Only if he's caught does it matter, because there ARE laws for that very issue, but it kind of late when someone's caught after the fact. There's typically no law pre...